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  • Database of Provincial Life uses digital computers to accomplish a task which was impossible to achieve using any previous representational medium: documenting EVERYTHING which happen to EVERYBODY who lived in the 20th century. By focusing on the
  • What is the condition of the art object in the age of networking and telematics? The piece entitled Dialogical Drawing, 1994, by Eduardo Kac, addresses this question by presenting two identical objects simultaneously at two distinct exhibition
  • Reabracadabra, 1985 - Videotext animated poem shown in 1985 in the group exhibition Arte On-Line, a national videotext art gallery presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo. In 2003 Reabracadabra was adapted for cel phones.
  • Composition on the Table (1998/99) is comprised of four white tables bearing physical interface components: switches, dials, and turntables. Computer graphics images are projected onto the tables from ceiling-mounted video projectors, and
  • Poetica Vaginal -
    In this project, Davis broadcast recorded vaginal contractions of ballerinas and beamed this interpretation of ‘human conception’ to the Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti star systems using Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Millstone radar. In
  • Tesão -
    Videotext (minitel) animated poem shown online in the group exhibition Brazil High-Tech (1986), a national videotext art gallery organized in Rio de Janeiro by Eduardo Kac and Flavio Ferraz and presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo (in
  • Three City Link -
    In 1989, the Three-City Link event brought together artists in Chicago (organized by Eduardo Kac and Carlos Fadon), Boston (led by Dana Moser), and Pittsburgh (the DAX [Digital Art Exchange] Group). A slow-scan television system connected to a
  • Telecommunications event between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo uniting fax and live TV, 1988. Connecting the public medium of television with the private medium of the fax this work created a system of feedback based on the continuous exchange and
  • Otocky -
    Designed by popular Japanese multimedia artist Toshio Iwai, "Otokki" or Otocky (which is the appropriate spelling that appears on the game's main title screen) was released for the Famicom Disk System in 1987. Otocky may be best described as a
  • Pulse Room - video
    Pulse Room is an interactive installation featuring one to three hundred clear incandescent light bulbs, 300 W each and hung from a cable at a height of three metres. The bulbs are uniformly distributed over the exhibition room, filling it